Remit of the Lambert Review

The business-university collaboration review will:

Identify the benefits to business of greater interaction with higher education, how this can be promoted and how any barriers holding back business demand for universities’ knowledge and skills outputs can be addressed.
Examine the national, regional and local economic impacts of business-university interactions, including how Regional Development Agencies and Sector Skills Councils can best support such interactions.
Assess the lessons to be learned from business-university interaction across a range of countries and from best practice across the UK.
Analyse how business employers can better communicate their skills requirements to a responsive university sector, and how they can improve the attractiveness of career paths to graduates and postgraduates, especially in technology; and
Examine the effectiveness of measures such as the R&D tax credits on business demand for research and skills.
Ask business for its views on the present governance, management and leadership arrangements of higher education institutions, and their effectiveness in supporting good research and knowledge transfer and providing relevant skills for the economy.